Its just so fucking stupid on its face. How anyone thought calling it “clean coal” was anything besides dumb as fuck is beyond me.
Then you should visit Colstrip, Montana or similar coal towns. The propaganda works very well when it’s taught from before birth and everyone goes along even if they don’t agree!
See, I understand that. What I dont understand is why every other non-coal town trump supporter didn’t immediately understand that this was a stupid as fuck grift immediately after hearing it.
Cognitive dissonance and cultism.
Its just really frustrating at how easy it is. Like really fucking disheartening.
3-4 decades of crippling public education can do that
Yeah but I live in Alberta, and I don’t feel like a lot of the things I see have much to do with what I learned in public education. Maybe I’m wrong.
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Can you explain for everybody who doesn’t want to fly into the USA to visit a coal town in Montana what one will see there?
No, I think you should visit.
Sure. Give me till after work and I’ll write up my memory and some experiences.
The propaganda works well when it the smog goes into the air and comes down as a natural occurrence beyond our control, especially when it disproportionately affects those eastward in the Jetstream. You know, the north/mid Atlantic coastal elites (just don’t mention Appalachian Pennsylvania)
When is he starting to wear those nice, shiny medals like the North Korean generals are wearing?
Nobody managed to fill up both pants legs? Pathetic!
6 of those are for basket weaving
The pants ones are probably from DLC, that’s why most don’t have them.
Can’t wait for the Food That Is Not Rice update
Oh he’s going to manage to fill up both pant legs…
…and the Goose Step to march like the f’n Russians and Nazis.
He sure does like his minors
Eyooooo!
This was such a comical read! It’s like reading a joke made into a serious article:
President Donald Trump has added another shiny award to his cabinet of trophies that have just been invented
"I’m thrilled to welcome to the White House the men and women who light our cities, and you know, you do things that people don’t even understand, so much, you do so much. You heat our homes, fuel our factories and turn natural resources into American riches and dreams. Our amazing coal miners.”
“I ended the war on coal,”
It is not the first time Trump has been the “inaugural recipient” of an award presented by those looking to curry his favor.
a bronze statue of a coal miner on the top and was engraved with “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.”
Infantino also handed Trump “a beautiful medal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go,”
So he won a made-up award about a made-up technology. Sounds about right.
Meanwhile China is positioning itself as a leader in the energy sectors of the future.
It’s depressing to watch these displays, but even more depressing in the knowledge that our nation’s power is (as usual) being squandered to make a demented old man feel like a big boy and for keeping a handful of billionaires marginally richer with money they’ll never actually live to spend anyway.
Unfortunately one of the advantages of dictatures is that it move fast in one direction. The main problem being if the leader is intelligent enough to chose the right direction, which they rarely do.
On the other hand, democracies moves slowly, but the damages done by bad leaders are often counterbalanced by the good made by better leaders.
Also dictators rarely focus moving on one direction
Gaddafi for example did good with education and healthcare, but he also many bad things.
You are right. But I didn’t mean that as “doing one thing well”, but rather “focussing on a long term objective”.
Fascism is a parody of itself.
What a fucking child.
He can put it on the mantle next to Melania’s FIFA Oscar for Best performance by a whore in a documentary.
At this rate, he’s a shoe-in for the Never Poopies in His Pants During Meetings Award of 5-Star Excellence.
Clean Coal is an oxymoron, like compassionate republican or good cop
This reminds me of how I just flew through India, saw pro-coal ads crediting Modi in the airport, and then walked out into all-winter smog that smells like burning hydrocarbons.
Watched Inglorious Basterds for the first time the other night
What a pathetic fucking circlejerk.
Donald “Mercury Poisoning” Trump.
Most the mercury in fish comes from fossil fuel burning and mining. Coal is both.
